Contributors

Charles Byrne is an erstwhile teacher of psychology and a writer with other poems forthcoming or recently published in Birmingham Poetry Review, Meridian, and Stonecoast Review.

Karim G. Dajani, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice with a specialization in treating bicultural individuals. His research and writing include publications on psychological resilience and culture. He focuses on the role culture plays in determining an individual's role within a collective and on the experience of cultural dislocation.

Richard Grose, PhD, is a psychoanalyst who is a member of ROOM's editorial board and book review editor for ROOM. He is interested in how culture and psychoanalysis can illuminate each other. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Manhattan.

Tom Hennes is a global leader in experiential design. For thirty years, he has led his New York-based firm, Thinc Design, in the development and design of innovative and influential museums, national memorials, aquariums, cultural attractions, and Olympic and World Expo pavilions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has written and lectured extensively on exhibitions as zones of exploration, discourse, and growth, shaped increasingly by an interpersonal–relational frame. In addition to his ongoing leadership of Thinc, he currently serves on the board of the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology.

Eliza Jaquez, LMFT, is a bilingual psychotherapist based in New York City. She specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults. Eliza completed postgraduate adult psychodynamic psychotherapy training at NYU's Institute of Psychoanalytic Education. She is also a graduate of IPTAR's Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy program and an advanced candidate in the adult psychoanalytic program. She has a private practice in NoHo. Website: elizajaquez.com

Sue Kolod is president-elect of the North America Psychanalytic C